Come see three of NYC's hottest startups present their technical road map from idea through execution. Hear from six-month old early stage startup, maturing and growing technical company and the large scale established technical firm. You'll learn directly from CTO's exactly what languages, frameworks and environments they're using and why they're using them. It will be an...
[read more] Come see three of NYC's hottest startups present their technical road map from idea through execution. Hear from six-month old early stage startup, maturing and growing technical company and the large scale established technical firm. You'll learn directly from CTO's exactly what languages, frameworks and environments they're using and why they're using them. It will be an exciting, interactive and highly technical discussion about the trials and tribulations of building a startup in today's fast-paced technical landscape.
Food, Beer, and Wine will be provided as well.
We have a short list of finalists interested in presenting the technical road map for their startup. If you are interested in participating in the presentation or the panel, please contact:
Shani.Snead@workbridgeassociates.com
Sloane.Barbour@jobspringpartners.com
Announcing our first presenter: Froilan Mendoza, CTO @ Mirror.co
Mirror is a new social media technology that revolutionizes two markets which havenât progressed much in the past decade: online dating and online people search. Mirror launched in March 2012 and is currently in its content-seeding phase. Their technical team is led by CTO Froilan Mendoza. Froilan has 15 years of start-up experience and is an expert in building scalable web applications for early-stage startups using the latest PHP/LAMP/MVC technologies. He leads a team which uses Yii, memcache, jquery in an agile/scrum environment.
Before joining Mirror, he was the CTO of JWed/Frumster and StyleHop.
Froilan is also an adjunct professor at Monroe College.
Announcing our second presenter: Gavin Cowie, CTO @ Voxy.com
Voxy is the only language learning program that is based 100% on your real-life daily activities.  By using mobile technology and gaming mechanics, Voxy turns the media that you consume, the conversations that you have, and the activities you do into powerful contextual language lessons that are available anytime, anywhere. Voxy launched in public beta at TechCrunch Disrupt in September 2010 as one of the most disruptive technology Startups of the year and has been recognized for its innovative approach by The New York Times, CNN Money, Veja, Venturebeat, and others.  Voxyâs iPhone application has been the #1 ranked Education app in 13 countries around the world for most of 2011.
Gavin's web journey began in 1996, in Edinburgh, Scotland making websites 1.0. He moved to Finland to go do web stuff for a Finnish software company, then moved to San Francisco in 2000 to do software development at a variety of bay area startups. Moving to New York in 2005 he began to lead teams building out high capacity websites in publishing and social networking verticals, before becoming head of tech at Voxy in October 2011.
Announcing our 3rd and final presenter:Â Bob Matsuoka, CTO @ CityMaps.com
CityMaps was founded by Elliot Cohen in 2010 with the simple premise: Â Todayâs online maps are great at helping you get from point A to point B â
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